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First let us consider the source of the comparison. Professor Charles Postel is a little-known professor of a well-known bastion on liberal thought, San Francisco State University and before that, he honed his liberal credentials as an assistant professor of another liberal giant of education, University of California Berkley. The liberals have gone to great lengths to slap tea party participants as “radical conservatives”. Professor Postel has found a way to pin that title on the tea partiers through weak analogy to the John Birch Society.

The tea party protests I have attended and watched on TV were calm, orderly and respectful, unlike the anti-war protests I witnessed under Bush 43, that were disorderly and disrespectful. When the left protests it is fine. When others dare do it they are labeled “dangerous”, “radical” and “ultra-conservative”. Liberals are for free speech and freedom to associate only when it involves causes they believe in. When others are successful at their game, they take great offense and seek to label them.

The tea party protests were born out of frustration of a government that is out of touch and incompetent. When the government goes against the needs, wants, and desires of the people they are suppose to represent, the people have the right to communicate that displeasure. It’s a right of the left, it’s a right of the right and it’s a right of everyone in between to voice their objection without objection. To protest out of control spending, soaring deficits, record unemployment, industry and bank bailouts should not be a conservative only protest.

I respectfully submit that the ones hurting the most in these times are the urban centers of our country who overwhelmingly supported the president and have not see the “hope” and “change” they were promised. When they protest for jobs and relief, what are they going to be labeled?

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